Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Gibo says"gaybo's". Classic

And now we are on the verge of seeing a post on the 270 banned due to Religous Fanaticism and homophobia

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And now we are on the verge of seeing a post on the 270 banned due to Religous Fanaticism and homophobia

Sorry for hurting your feelings

Well I only has one gun for a short while in my late teens.
I had sold my 22 because a new Anschutz 22 was on order and expected in 2 months ... it took a year !

So I only had a 270 which I reloaded for.
I also was working in the Bush part time and had a gundog to feed.
The 270 was just fine and I could head shoot rabbits at 100m to feed my dog.

It was, and still would be a perfectly adequate " one rifle to do it all "

It's the annoying little brother of the mighty, 3006.


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How good is the 270? Sig spend millions developing a new 6.8 mm cartridge shooting a 135gr projectile, and it pretty much achieves what the 270 does.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

How good is the 270? Sig spend millions developing a new 6.8 mm cartridge shooting a 135gr projectile, and it pretty much achieves what the 270 does.

You really are a .270 compulsive personality

Sig 6.8 compared to .270: Sig - shorter, less powder, less recoil, less noise. And I haven't even looked up the Sig's specs to check my assumptions.

The only thing that would make the .270 sillier is if it was belted

Originally Posted by Tahr

You really are a .270 compulsive personality

Sig 6.8 compared to .270: Sig - shorter, less powder, less recoil, less noise. And I haven't even looked up the Sig's specs to check my assumptions.

The only thing that would make the .270 sillier is if it was belted

More expensive. needs specialised rifles and cases to achieve the result. Recoil+- 1 ftlb

Originally Posted by Tahr

You really are a .270 compulsive personality

Sig 6.8 compared to .270: Sig - shorter, less powder, less recoil, less noise. And I haven't even looked up the Sig's specs to check my assumptions.

The only thing that would make the .270 sillier is if it was belted

Well there is the .275 belted rimless Holland and Holland nitro magnum but it handled 170 plus bullets and being British it must be better.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Well there is the .275 belted rimless Holland and Holland nitro magnum but it handled 170 plus bullets and being British it must be better.

And the 275 Rigby
I've just come home with a vintage 275 Rigby Flanged

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And the 275 Rigby
I've just come home with a vintage 275 Rigby Flanged

C'mon now @akaroa1,
We are NOT going to let you get away with at least some details and preferably pictures.
Regards Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And the 275 Rigby
I've just come home with a vintage 275 Rigby Flanged

Do you by any chance have a 280 Ross? Ive always wanted to shoot a stag or bull tahr with one of those.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And the 275 Rigby
I've just come home with a vintage 275 Rigby Flanged

But those are both imatation 7mm they are of course otherwise known as 7x57mm so are not real 7mm.the mighty .277 is closer when you measure the projectiles.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And the 275 Rigby
I've just come home with a vintage 275 Rigby Flanged

Calling a 7X57 a .275 Rigby is like calling a Vauxhall Viva GT a " Sports Car".

Originally Posted by Tahr

You really are a .270 compulsive personality

Sig 6.8 compared to .270: Sig - shorter, less powder, less recoil, less noise. And I haven't even looked up the Sig's specs to check my assumptions.

The only thing that would make the .270 sillier is if it was belted

270 Weatherby?

Greetings All,
In 1925 the .270 was a big step up from contemporary .30-06 army loads with a 150 grain projectile at around 2,700 fps but few seemed to have noticed at the time. I don't know what the original ballistics were but the claims would have been in a 26" barrel and aspirational rather than achievable. For handloaders, which were few,. IMR 4064 was the slowest powder available once it entered production. By 1950 with IMR 4350 and Surplus 4831 the .270 took off with handloaders. After the depression and WW2 hunters had more money and were more mobile which drove the need or just desire for new rifles rather than cut down military rifles. The .270 benefitted at least as much as any other.
Today although we might bag the .270 for its slow twist it is still a popular cartridge for which ammo and components are easily available. It still does everything it did almost 75 years ago just as well in fact better than that. I can not see it disappearing any time soon which is more than you can say for some of it's supposed replacements.
Regards Grandpamac.